Oh that is an ouch!!!! Poor you.  I will have to forward this one to Todd he 
will love the adventures of Chester grin.


Lelia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: Chester the parrot


>I am sure many of you will be happy to hear that yesterday, we let Chester
> out of his cage for lunch as we normally do.  Once I unlock his cage, I 
> pull
> the door open and Chester is normally hanging from the inside of the door 
> on
> the bars.  He starts trying to bite my belt, shirt, hands, and anything 
> else
> he can find as he starts climbing up the door till he gets to the top.  He
> likes sitting on top of the door for awhile before walking over to the top
> of the cage where his playground is.  Often, when he is sitting on the 
> door,
> he likes playing so I handle him and put my face up close to him.
> Sometimes, as he did yesterday, he grabs my nose in his beak.  He normally
> bites things and tests them to see if they are hard or soft.  He'll bite 
> my
> fingers harder, due to the bone he feels with his beak, than he does my
> nose.  Yesterday, he grabbed my nose and squeezed a little too hard.  His
> upper beak has a sharp point on the end for penetrating harder food, I
> suppose, so when he clamped down, he really clamped down.  I yelled, of
> course, to get him to stop, which he did, but the tip of his beak poked a
> tiny whole in the side of my nose and it bled.  No fooling.  That dumb 
> bird
> drew blood.  He thought it was funny, of course, but I wasn't laughing.
> Even as I write this at about 9:25 in the morning, he is out there in the
> living room whistling and chattering and talking to himself.  The other
> night, a week or so ago, he was still up at midnight, when Sandy got off
> work, and was carrying on like it was daylight out.  We had forgotten to
> turn the lights off earlier so he was still awake.  He usually quiets down
> once we turn the lights out at night but parrots takes cat naps, sort of
> speak, many times throughout the day.  He is starting to imitate other 
> birds
> he hears now, too.  Like robins and crows because our backdoor is often
> opened out on to the deck during the later afternoon when the sun has 
> passed
> over to the front of the house as it makes its way down to the mountain 
> tops
> before dropping down behind them.  The backyard temperatures drops off a 
> lot
> and we can leave the door open to the deck and the air gets cool rapidly 
> and
> the dogs can run in and out whenever they wish.  so Chester gets to hear
> everything going on in the backyard.  Chester has the bark and whining of
> our smallest dog down so well, sometimes you think Chester is Skip.  Also,
> Chester, from almost day one, learned how to make a sound that sounds like
> someone knocking on our solid core door which is our front door.  I was
> talking to Sandy as she was working the other day, heard my son knocking 
> on
> the door, or actually I thought it was my grandson wanting in, so I went 
> and
> opened the door.  No body was there.  It was Chester.  His cage is close 
> to
> the front door.  Yes, I felt like an idiot but only my two year old 
> grandson
> was here and saw me do it and he won't tell on me.
>
> Phil.
>
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